ENST 260 - Issues in Environmental Studies

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

Topic for 2016/17b: Ethics, Economics, and the Environment. This course engages economic and philosophical questions related to the environment, focusing on climate change. Topics addressed may include the economics and ethics of cost-benefit analysis, time discounting, fairness, valuation of life, valuation of ecosystems, risk and uncertainty, climate negotiations, public attitudes toward climate change, government policy making, activism, responsibility, behavioral nudges, recycling, tragedy of the commons and game theory, social entrepreneurship, fossil fuels. Ben Ho and Jamie Kelly.

Two 75-minute periods.